Cake and Connections: 10 Questions with Janis MacLean
Issue 5 of the Gairloch and District Times is out now and available to download in full colour.
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For this issue we speak to the new Development Manager at the Wester Loch Ewe Trust, Janis MacLean. She shares her journey back to her childhood school, her hopes for Inverasdale’s community hub, and why Wednesdays are the highlight of her working week. Find her story on pages 14-15.
Also in this issue 5:
- When is the £2 bus fare cap coming?
- Inverewe Garden Community Weekend
- Whale name wanted
- A cracking line-up of Easter events
- Could you be a River Guardian?
- Kinlochewe Gaelic Group funding win
- Dragonfly project shows promise
- Wester Ross Drama Group
- Loch Ewe Community Enterprise latest
- Peter’s nature column
- Mark’s NEW golf column
- UPDATED: Our essential local listings of jobs, events and services
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